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September 17, 2013 11:30 pm GMT

Survival of the Cheapest: Can a European Travel Site Make It in America?

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How do you book your online travel? On a site like Travelocity, Expedia or Orbitz? If you live in the United States, you most likely don't use Skyscanner, a global travel booking company with roots in Europe. Only now is the site expanding its footprint into the U.S.

The 300-person company recently acquired Fogg, a Barcelona-based hotel search company, poising it to make a bigger splash in the online travel space.

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“Our users are going to love hotel search as a result of this acquisition," said Skyscanner CEO and co-founder Gareth Williams in a press release. "We built the best flight search product anywhere in the world. We then expanded that offering into car rental. And today we’ve taken a big step towards completing the picture in the space of hotel search.” Read more...

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